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About the Role

Chewy is seeking a Software Engineer III to lead the development and scaling of highly available, distributed software systems that power critical business capabilities and customer experiences. This senior technical leadership role offers broad exposure across multiple organizations, influencing engineering strategy, establishing guidelines, mentoring engineers, and developing a high-performing, collaborative engineering culture.

Responsibilities

Lead the development and scaling of highly available, distributed software systems.
Drive the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable services, APIs, and event-driven platforms.
Collaborate with engineering and business partners from multiple functions.
Solve challenging technical problems, improve system reliability and performance, and enable long-term platform scalability.
Influence engineering strategy, establish guidelines, and mentor engineers.
Work closely with product teams and partners on several initiatives.
Build and develop distributed systems using Java 8+, Spring Boot, and AWS components.
Own features end-to-end: from RFC and architecture review through coding, deployment, and post-launch measurement.
Lead on-call rotations; drive root-cause analysis, observability improvements, and operational excellence.
Coach and improve engineers through design sessions, code reviews, and learning opportunities.
Influence product direction by translating ambiguous business problems into resilient, scalable solutions.
Advocate for standard methodologies in testing, secure coding, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and performance tuning.
Collaborate multi-functionally with product, data science, fulfillment ops, and partner engineering teams to align roadmaps with business outcomes.
Participate in on-call rotations and operational perfection.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
Excel at leading engineering teams and driving backend architecture and system design for scalable, distributed platforms.
Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude within real engineering workflows.
7+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer and/or team lead.
7+ years of experience developing scalable, distributed microservice applications using Java, JavaScript, AWS and/or Spring Boot.
Experience debugging and troubleshooting applications using tools SNS/Kafka, Dynatrace or AWS Cloudwatch.
Hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying scalable, highly available systems.
Ability to function as a hands-on engineer—comfortable writing complex code and debugging challenging issues.
Strong understanding of professional software engineering practices across the full development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
Proficiency in core computer science fundamentals: object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, problem-solving, and complexity analysis.
Experience in e-commerce (Bonus).
Familiarity with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or XP (Bonus).
Experience with configuration and deployment tools such as Terraform, along with knowledge of infrastructure, debugging, networking, compute, storage, and virtualization (Bonus).
Nice to have knowledge of ReactJS and Typescript.

Skills

Java
JavaScript
Node.js
GraphQL
DynamoDB
SNS/SQS
AWS ECS/Fargate
Kubernetes
Kafka
AWS Lambda
Java 8+
Spring Boot
AWS components
Lambda
SQS
DynamoDB
S3
API Gateway
Terraform
CloudFormation
SNS/Kafka
Dynatrace
AWS Cloudwatch
ReactJS
Typescript

Experience Level

7+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer and/or team lead.
7+ years of experience developing scalable, distributed microservice applications.

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.

Salary/Compensations

$141,000 - $225,000.00

Benefits

401k
New hire and annual equity grant
Annual bonus (for C08+ positions)
Medical/Rx insurance
Vision insurance
Dental insurance
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Hospital indemnity insurance
Critical illness insurance
Accident insurance
Parental leave
Family services benefits
Backup dependent care
Flexible spending accounts
Telemedicine
Pet adoption reimbursement
Employee assistance program
Discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com
Unlimited PTO (subject to manager approval)
Six paid holidays per year
Paid sick and family leave (in compliance with applicable state and local regulations)

About the Company

At Chewy, our mission is to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners, everywhere.
Rooted in our mission to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners, everywhere, we’re guided by our Chewy Operating Principles (or OPs for short), which serve as a common framework that drives our character, capabilities, ingenuity and operations.
Our 10 Operating Principles guide us every day: Customers First, Deliver Results, Earn Trust, Accelerate Time, Act as an Owner, Debate Openly; Commit Fully, Build High-Performing Teams, Keep it Simple, Think Big.

Equal Opportunity

Chewy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, citizenship, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, veteran status, as well as any other legally-protected characteristic.
If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact CAAR@chewy.com.
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